Motorola announced a new cell phone, the E895, to be available in the last quarter of this year. It uses a combination of Java and Linux called JUIX, which Motorola claims is easier to use than other smartphone OSes. But Motorola doesn’t have a good history of easy-to-use phones — one of my friends said …
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Tour de France
This is the first year I watching the last two weeks of the Tour every day. On the west coast it’s perfect timing: wake up at 7, watch the last hour of the stage on OLN, then get to work by my usual time. And I got totally sucked in — even when it was …
Standards war over pet tags
You think HD-DVD vs Blu Ray is pointless: there are two competing standards for microchipping pets. If you have the wrong scanner, you cannot read, or even detect, the implanted chip. This has caused anger, confusion, and animals to be accidentally put to death. Yikes.
Longhorn -> Windows Vista
“Windows Vista“, eh? It’s an okay name — more meaningful than “XP”. Dan hopes Windows Vista’s fate will be like AltaVista‘s: technically it still exists, but no one uses it. I’m more inclined to believe it’ll be more like my old high school, Monta Vista: still going strong.
No bookstores in Cupertino???
When I moved to Cupertino in 1989, it had several general bookstores: A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books in the Oaks, a B. Dalton in Cupertino Crossroads, a Waldenbooks in Vallco Mall, and a Crown Books in the Marketplace (across from Vallco). Stacey’s later opened a branch near Vallco. For the geeks, there was Computer …
Web development: Ruby on Rails and Django
A constant theme in HCI and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is how hard it is to get a group of people to adopt and support new technology — being technically superior is not nearly enough. One good example, interestingly enough, is in the area of web application frameworks. For example, in my favorite language Python, …
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Salvadorean food and Willow Glen ice cream
Two nights ago, my buddy Jonathan and I met up for dinner. We were in an adventurous mood, so we went to Vicky’s Restaurant [map | Mercury News review], which specializes in cuisine from El Salvador, in the Burbank neighborhood of San Jose. Jon couldn’t resist the 2 Tacos for $2 deal, but we also …
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